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by pcrh 1y ago
That's only available to those with an undergraduate degree from Cambridge who, subsequent to their undergraduate degree, publish work worthy of a Ph.D. and pass a viva. I'm not sure how common a route ot Ph.D. it is (I never hear
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by pcrh 1y ago
>You enroll in the school for ~3 months, write the missing parts, and that's it. There are degree mills that do what you describe. There is also the format in countries such as Germany or the Netherlands where one typically "bu
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by pcrh 1y ago
A PhD thesis is itself a publication. PhDs "by publication" refers to not having to submit work additional that already published to the examining committee.
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by pcrh 1y ago
My point is that LLMs, by virtue of how they work, cannot properly evaluate novel research. Edit, consider the following hypothetical: A couple of biologists travel to a remote location and discover a frog with an unusual method of attrac
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by pcrh 1y ago
To partly answer your question, Pubmed central hosts a large fraction of all biomedical research papers relevant for only a few US$ million per year. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/about/faq/ BioRxiv is free to rese
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The "cheating" in this case is failing to accept one's responsibility to the research community. Every researcher needs to have their work independently evaluated by peer review or some other mechanism. So those who "che
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by pcrh 1y ago
AI for basic copy-editing is legitimate, I think, even if it might be a bit erratic right now. Manuscripts I've had approved have been sent to be that are clearly copy-edited by AI, and it does spot errors. However, AI should not be us
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by pcrh 1y ago
I don't doubt that LLMs can improve grammar. However, an original research paper should not be evaluated on the basis of the quality of the writing, unless this is so bad as to make the claims impenetrable.
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by pcrh 1y ago
After a brief scan, I'm not competent to evaluate the essay by Chris Olah you posted. I probably could get an LLM to do so, but I won't....
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by pcrh 1y ago
How is an LLM supposed to review an original manuscript? At their core (and as far as I understand), LLMs are based on pre-existing texts, and use statistical algorithms to stitch together text that is consistent with these. An original res
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by pcrh 1y ago
Everyone's writing can be improved. However, for native speakers, and especially if they have the level of education where they are producing original research, it would be a rare case that the writing was so bad that the science being
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by pcrh 1y ago
The post title has now been changed to be the same as the article's title.
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by pcrh 1y ago
An LLM would only be able to "polish" a non-native speaker's writing. Otherwise it is not conceivable that it could improve the essential nature of original research being communicated, this is as said original research will
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by pcrh 1y ago
As a researcher myself, I find it curious that so many of my peers are turning to LLMs to assist in writing. Writing is a process of communicating one's data and thoughts, and it is the coherent crystallization of such thoughts that pr
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by pcrh 1y ago
The post title isn't grammatically correct. It should be "caused a " or "shift s "
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by pcrh 1y ago
>"hey in fact Egyptians all came from Mesopotamia" Quite. Especially considering that the article states that this man was 80% North African with dark to black skin....
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by pcrh 1y ago
Wikipedia itself describes its size as ~25GB without media [0]. And it's probably more accurate and with broader coverage in multiple languages compared to the LLM downloaded by the GP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by pcrh 1y ago
AI is going to increase the value of prestige education over middle-of-the-road education. Middle of the road colleges will not have the resources to ensure that students learn despite AI, whereas the Oxbridges, etc, will retain their tut
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by pcrh 1y ago
Your friend's approach doesn't sound like cheating, after all the wrote the original essays. It's more similar to spending hours preparing small exam cheat sheets, and then realizing that you didn't need them during the
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by pcrh 1y ago
>Tragula's wife used to complain to him about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake. She would o
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by pcrh 1y ago
Verification work is more common than often supposed. However, it rarely takes the form of explicit replication of the published findings. More commonly, the published work makes a claim, and such a claim leads to further hypotheses (predic
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by pcrh 1y ago
I scanned the article. Oddly enough, it is about the toxins in the environment where a CEO was born. From the article's conclusion: > Superfund CEOs—those born in counties later designated as Superfund sites—excel in internally fo
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by pcrh 1y ago
You're not wrong. It is about where the CEO was conceived and born. From the article's introduction: > Our approach addresses these issues by exploiting prenatal exposure to pollution from Superfund sites as an exogenous source
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by pcrh 1y ago
Lucy Connolley is the person who said "set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards" on 29th July 2024.
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by pcrh 1y ago
How direct is direct enough? Connolley posted messages inciting racial violence, racial violence ensued. Was Connolley a major instigator of these riots? No. The judge's sentencing remarks are below, the key part being: >6. When y
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by pcrh 1y ago
Connolley's message was posted at 8.30pm on the 29th July. One day before crowds attacked Mosques in Southport. Related disturbances continued until August 5th.
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In this case, she was found guilty of "sending a communication threatening death or serious harm". >Sweeney wrote: "It’s absolutely ridiculous. Don’t protect the mosque. Blow the mosque up with the adults in it." htt
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by pcrh 1y ago
You would have to point out where the current law in the UK is unjust. The current law surrounding "inalienable rights" in the UK is based on the ECHR that I linked to.
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In this case, the threats did move to action....
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No system is perfect or never in need of reform, including the UK civil service. However, recent attacks on the civil service from the political right are almost always a consequence of reality colliding with politics, i.e. the civil servic

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